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Tag: Republican Noise Machine

Tucker Carlson

Meet the woman behind “Libs of TikTok,” secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine

April 19th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

“Libs of TikTok has become an agenda-setter in right-wing online discourse, and the content it surfaces shows a direct correlation with the recent push in legislation and rhetoric directly targeting the LGBTQ+ community,” The Washington Post reports.

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Vice President of Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair requires TV stations, including KOMO, to air segments that tilt to the right

May 13th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

A must-read from The New York Times. “Eight current and former KOMO employees describe a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclair’s programming directives, especially must-runs pieces, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality.”

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What everyone watching Republicans debate on Fox Noise should keep in mind

August 6th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Elections, Media & Culture

What everyone watching Republicans debate on Fox Noise should keep in mind Media Matters reminds us that appearing reasonable on debate night is part of

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Jon Stewart hammers Fox Noise’s nonstop anger: ‘Even watching it is killing me’

February 25th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more

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Lacking all self-awareness, Fox now calling Obama obstructionist

January 12th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Lacking all self-awareness, Fox now calling Obama obstructionist The Fox Noise Channel does revionist history better than anyone else. Once an election is over, they

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Former Republican staffer says his party has morphed into “an oligarchy with a well developed public relations strategy”

August 12th, 2012 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture, Party Politics

Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a well-developed

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